My guess would be that the inverted I-beams or whatever they are have shifted.

This would be poor engineering and planning on the city’s part. How you would like to be sitting there and have the thing cave? Or have your pet outside. How about a child or grandchild?

How would you like to think you have a fence - have this thing collapse while at work - and have your pet run out into Jefferson?

Hope the left field wall downtown is built better than this.

I can’t say what happened to that one section that looks like it has crumbled, but for the other sections which have look half complete, those have been that way since the winter. When the article was written in the paper, they went out and “cleaned up” the sections that were broken, put the fence back together with the remaining pieces and had not yet add the additional pieces to the wall to make it complete.

I am not sure when the Microsoft aerial was taken, but I don’t think that it has looked that way since the newspaper article.

and to the poster above: Are you kidding me?

The strongest part to ANY wall (or the weakest) would be the SUPPORT…and by that I mean any and all POLES placed to anchor it.
“Wall-dough” gets it….looks like the poles were not deep enough and shifted, or there was no aggregate at the bottom of the post holes in the first place as a bedding.

Either way…it sure lappears like a clear-cut “band-aid fi” from our marvelous city departments…again.

B.G.

Arrow Fence should be ashamed for this install, it has been crumbling from day one. But it probably wasn’t their fault, it was probably due to what the city requested.

I think some of it is from vehicle crashes, some has just fell apart, and I think were due to snow flying at 50+mph from the plows.

The other Eric is right, they never did replace anything from prior, just cleaned up the mess.

What I don’t get is how people can call into question the City’s engineering department based upon a picture of a crumbled section of a fence, which no one has a clue of what happened to it. But I guess the people that are looking to bi*%h about something will always find something to bi*&h about. (Fetcho you are not included in this group).

AWB,
The pieces are stacked on top of each other. Somebody moved them after it fell down. So you cannot tell from the photo which way the wall fell.

Wall Dough
People should be responsible for their own kids and pets, not the city.

Really, the city should have never provided them with a wall at all. If you buy a house next to the highway, be prepared to deal with noise.

Can we all agree that the wall is a ug-plugly?

As a resident of Wildwood Park (the wall is in my back yard) I can tell you that the city did not “provide” us with a wall. A financing package was put together by the Wildwood board to pay for construction.
Additionally, the I-beams are not the issue. They were installed correctly and have not moved or shifted since they were installed. And the wall sections can certainly withstand the force of snow from the plows. The problem lies with the drunks that can’t seem to keep their cars on the road. It takes a large amount of force to go through one of those panels. ie. a high rate of speed would be required to do this type of damage. Add the fact that the wall only seems to get damaged in the early morning hours. The only fault I can put on the city is failing to put a rail or curb along that section of fence.
That’s what I know.
Kris